A business that caters to adults who like wearing diapers and being treated like babies has been booted from one New Hampshire town.
Residents of Atkinson packed a meeting of the town's Zoning Board of Adjustment on Wednesday, where they encouraged board members to deny Diaper Spa's application for a home business permit.
Several objected to having people with sexual fetishes in their neighborhood, while others said they feared the business would attract pedophiliacs, Boston.com reported.
However, Diaper Spa owner Dr. Colleen Ann Murphy argued she's only providing "a safe and nonjudgmental environment for individuals seeking comfort and solace."
"The services are strictly platonic and exclusively operate on my own property, with visits limited to one client at a time," she said, per Boston.com.
When asked why there was such an outcry against her business, Murphy said, "I think because they are not the audience for these types of services, and therefore they don't understand the specific language or the specific idea regarding the concept," according to the report.
In the end, the board denied Murphy's request for a business license. She now has 30 days to file an appeal.
According to The Post Millennial, services at the home business would have ranged from "a free 30-minute 'discovery call' with 'resident Diaper Doctor' Murphy, to a $1,500 'Diaper B&B,' described as a 'premier spa experience for the little one inside of you.'" The home featured a nursery-like atmosphere with "an adult-sized crib, a chest full of adult-sized diapers in childish prints, as well as stuffed animals placed around the house," the report added.
"A visit includes activities like 'playtime, story time, nap time, cuddle time, changing time, coloring, nursery rhymes, and sing-a-longs,' with seasonal offerings including picnics, pool time, and tea time in the summer and building snowmen, drinking hot chocolate, and decorating cookies in the winter," The Post Millennial reported.
A website for the business reportedly billed it as the "only physician-owned Diaper Spa in the world." Murphy previously told WHDH the spa and its services are not for sexual gratification but for trauma therapy.
"It helps them process whatever trauma it was," Murphy said. "A lot of times it’s childhood trauma when they were in diapers or just getting out of diapers and they want to feel that safety that they had before that."
It's not clear if Murphy plans to appeal the zoning board's decision.